After emergency abdominal surgery I was given a grand total of six ‘loritab’ pills when I was discharged. The doctors would not renew the prescription. Six tablets is two days. One does not recover from the pain of emergency invasive abdominal surgery in two days. They are indeed paralyzed by the media driven scare of “opioid crisis.”
My doctor of 20+ years will give me Hydrocodone if I ask for it to have on hand “just in case”. I just got some last month, but I see that my last bottle of 15 tablets was from 2020.
I use to take it like candy 30 years ago for an issue and it helped with the pain and no goofy stuff (I still worked, etc.)
Now it helps with the pain but I get really bad nightmares (I only take it at bedtime now). The nightmares really limit how much I want to take it anymore, I’d rather have the pain. Thankfully it isn’t for anything too chronic.